Brave New World (II & III)

Chapter 2

• Foster is left behind in Decanting Room (no scene)
• Director leads boys to Nursery. ( INFANT NURSERIES. NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS)
• Experiment conducted
• Books with colorful pictures of flowers and other things showed to eight month old babies (Delta, khaki)
• Babies crawled to pictures, delighted by them
• Alarm sounds, babies terrified
• Babies are SHOCKED?!?!, filled with fear of the pictures
• Boy asks why they're taught to hate flowers, has to do with consumption of goods and use of transportation
• At first, taught to love flowers to use transportation, didn't work
• Then taught to hate flowers and country, but love country sports
• Director tells story of Reuben Rabinovitch
• Had regular parents (considered sexual and boys uncomfortable using terms such as mother and father)
• Heard English speech on radio while sleeping (He's Polish), was able to repeat it word for word when woken up
• Called hypnopaedia, sleep teaching, A.F. 214
• Early experimenters tried using it for educational purposes
• Child listened to information about the Nile, could recite information word for word but could not ingest the information
• Now they use the information correctly
• Eighty babies sleeping, have voice talking to them in their sleep, talking about how Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are below them, Alphas are smarter and better, and how they love being Betas
• Corrected the use of hynopaedia to ingraine their category into their minds, every day
• Whenever Ford is mentioned, they talk about him as if he was a god. "Oh, Ford! I've woken the children!"

Chapter 3

• Director and students watch hundreds of young boys and girls play
• Watched a game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy, the tossing of a ball on top of a tower, which spins it around and shoots it out randomly to be caught
• Director comments on how things were so simple back then, but now no game can be approved unless it contains complicated machinery to improve consumption
• They go on to watch a boy and girl fooling around (ew) when they hear a boy crying
• The boy is uncomfortable with the "erotic play" going on around them, and the nurse says she will take him to the Assistant Superindent of Psychology to see if there is any abnormality
• The Director explains how in the past it was considered immoral and inappropriate for children and teens to act sexually with each other (they laugh at this)
• The Controller Mustapha Mond (fordship) appears (the leader of this futuristic government?)
• Narrative switches to Foster and Lenina
• Foster stands in a lift (elevator) with Assistant Director of Predestination and Bernard Marx from Psychology
• Also switches to Lenina
• Back to Mond, revealed he is one of 10 controllers of world, controller of western Europe
• "History is bunk"
• Director asks Foster if he's going to see a feely (erotic film?)
• Rumors that Mond has forbidden books in his study "Ford knows what"
• Bernard Marx offended by Foster and Director's talk
• Students don't know what a "home" is
• Lenina goes to Dressing Room
• Mond describes how terrible "homes were"
• Lenina washes herself in the weird bathrooms, talks to Fanny, Fanny mentions Pregnancy Substitute?
• Basically, Mond is describing the world before the World State, how people were unstable from emotions, disease, and more. When the caste system, hypnopaedia, and artificial birthing introduced, it was fought against, but then won. They decided to make the new era around the birth of the Model T
• Everyone in this world hooks up, all the time, with all different kinds of people
• Foster and Lenina have been at it for four months, but Lenina has only been with him
• Lenina starts to try to be more promiscuous, decides to try being with Bernard
• Soma = drug